{"id":7246,"date":"2011-03-08T00:01:27","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T05:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=7246"},"modified":"2017-12-01T01:57:05","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T20:57:05","slug":"rumi-tuesday-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/rumi-tuesday-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumi Tuesday&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7251\" title=\"Rumi\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rumi2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"440\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Tuesday\u2026 and some more inspired lines from the great <a style=\"color: #808080;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rumi\" target=\"_blank\">Rumi<\/a>\u2026<br \/>\nJal\u0101l ad-D\u012bn Mu\u1e25ammad Balkh\u012b, \u062c\u0644\u0627\u0644\u0627\u0644\u062f\u06cc\u0646 \u0645\u062d\u0645\u062f \u0628\u0644\u062e\u0649<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">+++<\/span><\/p>\n<p>From the beginning of my life<br \/>\nI have been looking for your face<br \/>\nbut today I have seen it<br \/>\nToday I have seen<br \/>\nthe charm, the beauty,<br \/>\nthe unfathomable grace<br \/>\nof the face<br \/>\nthat I was looking for.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">+++<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the<br \/>\nforerunners of pleasure.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">+++<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes.<br \/>\nIf it were always a fist or always stretched open,<br \/>\nyou would be paralyzed.<br \/>\nYour deepest presence \u2028is<br \/>\nin every small contracting and expanding,<br \/>\nthe two as beautifully balanced and coordinated<br \/>\nas bird wings.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">+++<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the body of the world, they say, there is a soul<br \/>\nand you are that.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">+++<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Late by myself, in the boat by myself<br \/>\nNo light and no land anywhere<br \/>\ncloud cover thick, I try to stay<br \/>\njust above the surface, but I am already under<br \/>\nand living in the ocean of your love.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">+++<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Since I was cut from the reedbed,<br \/>\nI have made this crying sound.<br \/>\nAnyone apart from someone he loves<br \/>\nunderstands what I say.<br \/>\nAnyone pulled from a source<br \/>\nlongs to go back.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">+++<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A rose&#8217;s rarest essence lives in the thorn.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">+++<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I died as a mineral and became a plant,<br \/>\nI died as plant and rose to animal,<br \/>\nI died as animal and I was Man.<br \/>\nWhy should I fear? When was I less by dying?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">+++<\/span><\/p>\n<p>You were born with potential<br \/>\nYou were born with goodness and trust<br \/>\nYou were born with ideals and dreams<br \/>\nYou were born with greatness<br \/>\nYou were born with wings<br \/>\nYou are not meant for crawling, so don&#8217;t.<br \/>\nYou have wings<br \/>\nLearn to use them, and fly.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">+++<\/span><\/p>\n<p>What was whispered to the rose<br \/>\nTo break it open<br \/>\nLast night<br \/>\nWas whispered to my heart<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">+++<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We are the mirror as well as the face in it.<br \/>\nWe are tasting the taste this minute of eternity.<br \/>\nWe are pain and what cures pain both.<br \/>\nWe are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">+++<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Since you will come<br \/>\nand throw kisses<br \/>\nat my tombstone later<br \/>\nwhy not give them to me now<br \/>\nthis is me<br \/>\nthat same person.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">+++<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday\u2026 and some more inspired lines from the great Rumi\u2026 Jal\u0101l ad-D\u012bn Mu\u1e25ammad Balkh\u012b, \u062c\u0644\u0627\u0644\u0627\u0644\u062f\u06cc\u0646 \u0645\u062d\u0645\u062f \u0628\u0644\u062e\u0649 +++ From the beginning of my life I have been looking for your face but today I have seen it Today I have seen the charm, the beauty, the unfathomable grace of the face that I was looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,7,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15659,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7246\/revisions\/15659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}